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...aggressively internationalist stance, looking to a future world unified by technology. Yet its rhetoric was bedded deep in Italian life. The core of the futurist group, which coalesced in the early 1900s, was made up of the painters Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, Giacomo Balla, Luigi Russolo and Gino Severini, the architect Antonio Sant'Elia and a few writers clustered around the figure of Marinetti, poet, dandy, ringmaster, publicist and red-hot explainer to the global village -- "the caffeine of Europe," as he called himself. They were all Italian; to be Italian then was to inherit a culture dominated...
...only avant-garde movement in our century that can be shown to have had some formative effect on politics, and even that is debatable, acted on the right, not on the left. It was futurism, whose ideas and rhetoric (rather than the works of art actually painted by Balla, Severini or Boccioni) bodied forth some of the mythology of Italian Fascism. The futurist ethos expressed by Marinetti before World War I, with its cult of speed, male potency, antifeminism and violent struggle, supplied the oratorical framework for Mussolini's rise to power and set the stage for his appearance...
...paintings, drawings, sculptures and other works by the artists he has dressed. Since he has no bank account and little cash, he has reluctantly sold 1,850 of them in order to live. Still, Sapone has rejected offers of $20,000 for a pointillist abstract dancer by Gino Severini and $60,000 for an exceptionally sensitive Alberto Giacometti portrait of the tailor's daughter Aika...
...clash of contrasting styles, curious continuities emerge. Kinetic art, one of the latest movements, represented by Sculptors Jean Tinguely and Pol Bury, is foreshadowed by Gino Severini's The Armored Train (opposite page), an example of World War I futurism that abstracts the warring motion of an ironclad railway car into shock waves, lacking only POW! ZIP! BAM! in cartoon balloons to become pop art. And Severini died just this year at the age of 83. Optical art is another trend of the '60s. Yet a flat pattern of particolored isosceles triangles called Iridescent Interpenetration...
Lunge, Dart, Pierce. Unlike the contemporary cubists, who had moved steadily away from subject matter, the futurists depended on subjects as their springboard. Gino Severini prized abstract, rhythmic forms that could evoke associations involving all the senses. His Dynamic Hieroglyph of the Bal Tabarin (see color) is a jumbled panorama of twirling skirts, a laughing face, the monocle of an aristocratic cafégoer, hints of music and noise through words ("valse," "polka," "bowling...